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Derecho de la Competencia en Argentina y su control judicial Análisis de la jurisprudencia relevante para la práctica profesional

Posted on September 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Fundación Justicia & Mercado has organized a first rate conference in Argentina on competition policy. Derecho de la Competencia en Argentina y su control judicial Análisis de la jurisprudencia relevante para la práctica profesional 28...

From Overt to Tacit Collusion: Experimental Evidence on the Adverse Effects of Corporate Leniency Programs

Posted on September 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jeroen Hinloopen, University of Amsterdam - Department of Economics and Adriaan R. Soetevent, Amsterdam School of Economics, Tinbergen Institute an important new piece - From Overt to Tacit Collusion: Experimental Evidence on the Adverse Effects...

Irish Competition Authority Report Finds Competition between Grocers is Limited by the Retail Planning System

Posted on September 16, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Irish Competition Authority released a report this week on competition in the supermarket sector. As regular readers of this blog know, supermarkets are hot topics in the US, UK, Australia, Chile and Ireland. In...

DOJ/FTC Technical Asssitance Workshop - Tanscript Now Available Online

Posted on September 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The transcript from the highly successful DOJ/FTC Technical Assistance Workshop held in February is now available online. In particular, read pages 298-304 in which the transcript provides my long rant about everybody's shortcomings involved in...

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Turning On Itself: How Dueling Agencies In The Bush Administration Made Mincemeat Of Antitrust Regulation Policy

Posted on September 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Jon Baker of American University's Washington College of Law has an interesting short article in the current issue of the New Republic on Turning On Itself: How Dueling Agencies In The Bush Administration Made Mincemeat...

Does the Rule of Reason Violate the Rule of Law?

Posted on September 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Maurice Stucke of the University of Tennessee Law School has posted Does the Rule of Reason Violate the Rule of Law? ABSTRACT: In the past few years, the Supreme Court has been more active in...

A Switching Costs Explanation of Tying and Warranties

Posted on September 15, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Edward Iacobucci of the University of Toronto Law School has a very interesting piece on A Switching Costs Explanation of Tying and Warranties in the latest issue of the Journal of Legal Studies. ABSTRACT: Competitive...

Chinese Antimonopoly Commission of the State Council In Operation

Posted on September 14, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Wall Street Journal reports that the Chinese Antimonopoly Commission of the State Council is now in operation. Coke's potential acquisition of China Huiyuan Juice Group is an issue. According to the article: On the...

Should Banking Be Kept Separate from Commerce?

Posted on September 13, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Alexander Raskovich (DOJ Antitrust) asks- Should Banking Be Kept Separate from Commerce? ABSTRACT: In the U.S., unlike much of the rest of the world, the mixing of banking and commerce is largely prohibited. One exception...

Analytical Screens for Electricity Mergers

Posted on September 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Richard Gilbert (Berkeley - Economics) and David Newbery (University of Cambridge - Economics) provide some thoughts on Analytical Screens for Electricity Mergers. ABSTRACT: Electricity mergers pose distinct challenges for competition policy...

Antitrust Practitioner Survey - Time is Running Out

Posted on September 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I am conducting a survey of non-government antitrust practitioners (including practitioners with law firms and in-house) who undertake antitrust work in the United States to better understand how antitrust law shapes compliance...

Workshop on Basics of the Premerger Notification Program

Posted on September 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The FTC has announced an all day Workshop on Basics of the Premerger Notification Program. According to the press release: The workshop will cover such topics as how to determine whether premerger notification is required...

The Distribution of Harm in Price-Fixing Cases

Posted on September 12, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The Distribution of Harm in Price-Fixing Cases is an interesting new paper by Jan Boone, Tilburg University - Center for Economic Research and Wieland Müller, Tilburg University Center and Faculty of Economics and Business Administration...

Analyzing Mergers Using Capacity Closures

Posted on September 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nicholas Hill of DOJ-Antitrust has authored a paper on Analyzing Mergers Using Capacity Closures. ABSTRACT: In this paper I describe a method for analyzing mergers in industries in which it is more cost effective to...

Issues in Competition Law and Policy

Posted on September 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The ABA Antitrust Section has just published Issues in Competition Law and Policy. BOOK ABSTRACT: Competition policy in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere is embedded in a complex regime of laws predicated on the...

Optimal Sharing Strategies in Dynamic Games of Research and Development

Posted on September 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Optimal Sharing Strategies in Dynamic Games of Research and Development is the new paper by Nisvan Erkal (University of Melbourne Department of Economics) and Deborah Minehart (DOJ Antitrust). ABSTRACT: This paper builds a theoretical foundation...

Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy

Posted on September 11, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson, both of the Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Sweden have a paper out on Entrepreneurial Innovations, Competition and Competition Policy. ABSTRACT: We construct a model where an entrepreneur could...

The Most Beautiful Law School in the US?

Posted on September 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The answer is Stetson Law School in the Gulfport suburb of Tampa/St. Petersburg. I gave a work in progress talk on Monday The law school has the campus of a liberal arts college, including tennis...

Dr. Miles is Dead. Now What?: Structuring a Rule of Reason for Evaluating Minimum Resale Price Maintenance

Posted on September 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Thom Lambert of the University of Missouri School of Law discusses Dr. Miles is Dead. Now What?: Structuring a Rule of Reason for Evaluating Minimum Resale Price Maintenance and engages in some written sparring with...

Antitrust Versus Regulatory Merger Review: The Case of Electricity

Posted on September 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Diane Moss of the American Antitrust Institute has authored Antitrust Versus Regulatory Merger Review: The Case of Electricity. ABSTRACT: This paper focuses on the implications of multi-agency review of electricity mergers. It highlights fundamental differences...

Netscape is Dead: Remedy Lessons from the Microsoft Litigation

Posted on September 10, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Harry First of NYU Law School weighs in on Netscape is Dead: Remedy Lessons from the Microsoft Litigation. ABSTRACT: On March 1, 2008, AOL officially pulled the plug on the Netscape Browser, killing off the...

Some Thoughts on the DOJ Section 2 Report

Posted on September 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The separate DOJ Section 2 Report has to be seen as an example of how fractured the inter-agency relationship has become between the DOJ and FTC. FTC Chairman Bill Kovacic's comments from February 2007 are...

George Mason Law Review 12th Annual Symposium on Antitrust Law

Posted on September 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The agenda for the George Mason Law Review 12th Annual Symposium on Antitrust Law is now available. This is a great line-up of some of the luminaries in antitrust. December 4, 2008 Ronald Reagan Building...

Is DOJ Ready to Take on Google?

Posted on September 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to today's WSJ, DOJ Antitrust has hired Sandy Litvack to potentially take on Google's advertising practices. As a practical matter, shouldn't all the voices who have spent the past ten year's decrying Microsoft's practices...

Competition when Consumers Value Firm Scope

Posted on September 09, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Nathan Miller of DOJ Antitrust analyses Competition when Consumers Value Firm Scope. ABSTRACT: I model multimarket competition when consumers value firm scope across markets. Such competition is surprisingly common ? consumers in many industries prefer...

DOJ Section 2 Report

Posted on September 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol I was in transit today after giving a talk at Stetson Law School in Tampa (more on that in tomorrow's blog) so apologies for the late posting but DOJ has posted its Section 2 Report.

European Cartel Digest

Posted on September 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Ewoud Sakkers (DG Comp) and Johan Ysewyn (Linklaters) have published the 2008 European Cartel Digest. Table of Contents: Introduction Foreword by the Heads of the EU, French, German and UK Competition Authorities ; Jurisdictions European...

Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact: Evidence from China

Posted on September 08, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Joseph P. H. Fan, Chinese University of Hong Kong - School of Accountancy, Randall Morck, University of Alberta - Department of Finance and Management Science, Jun Huang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Bernard...

FTC at 100: A U.K. Perspective

Posted on September 07, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol The agenda for the London roundtable for the FTC at 100 is now available. Location Competition Commission Victoria House Southampton Row London WC1B 4AD Date Friday, September 12 10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks by Alden Abbott and...

Regional Competition Policy in Africa

Posted on September 06, 2008
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to news reports, "Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states have adopted a land-mark competition policy that is expected to shape regional investment and trade across the 14-member grouping, the organization said this week...

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